Month: May 2017
Nicaragua took the English Maypole tree and ribbons and added steamy Caribbean dancing. Dirty Display of dirty dancing In Bluefields, Nicaragua, people agree, “Maypole is not what it used to be.” …
The lack of $50,000 may have kept a West Virginian dentist, Mahlon Loomis, from developing a radio system twenty years before Marconi. Congress refused to give Mahlon Loomis financial aid. Many …
Cheese Rolling Race, Gloucester, England. So many villages must be missing their idiots today. Young men chase a cheese off a cliff and tumble 200 yards to the bottom. …
Hunting the Earl of Rone was banned in 1837, for licentiousness and drunken behavior. I blame the incredibly trippy hobby horse. Luckily, the bizarre custom was revived in 1974. …
Today is the geekiest, nerdiest day of the year. Must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Today is not only Geek Pride Day. It’s Towel …
Like Julia Roberts in “My Best Friend’s Wedding”, Jeremy snail is a celebrity and on the wrong side of a love triangle. If you think it’s awkward being a …
Game of Thrones began as Game of Shells. It’s turtles all the way down. George R.R. Martin’s childhood turtles kept dying, sometimes in horrible ways – like trapped for …
Move over, Skull Island. These otherworldly animals do exist on Earth, though only in 1 place. For Biological Diversity Day, here are 10 “only found in” creatures. This unusual …
Victorian women were told that Bicycle Face would ruin their beauty. Bicycle Face is the tense expression of concentration required for dodging traffic. Not only would this ruin women’s good …
On Bike to Work Day, let’s remember the cyclist menace of the Victorian era – scorchers. Some Victorians went extraordinarily fast on their bicycles, often to the point of putting those …
The Museum of Failures celebrates corporate cock-ups – from Colgate Lasagna to Bic pink and purple “for her” pens. The idea for the Museum of Failures came to Dr. …
Edward Gorey packrat hoarded very interesting and sinister things. The Gorey Skull At least once, Gorey’s hoarding tendencies even got him in trouble with the law. In the 1950s, …
